“ How is this China ? What happened to ...” “ China has changed a lot , with modern industry .” “ Here we are ,” the girl said as she stood in front of a glossy lit-up block . “ My apartment ,” she said . She and Monkey entered a metallic box with glowing buttons that she pressed . Suddenly , the box started rising upward . “ I do not understand this place at all ,” Monkey said under his breath . After a few seconds a bell dinged , and the box ’ s doors opened up into the girl ’ s home .
“ I know why you came down to the mortal world . It ’ s the White Bone Demon you ' re looking for right ?” the girl said as she turned around , but as she did so , Monkey caught a flash of silver . He saw that there were two small knives hanging from her belt . Each ivory handle was carved with a snake wrapping around it , its mouth wide open , exposing gleaming fangs made of diamonds . The snake ’ s eyes were studded with emeralds that gleamed in the fading light of the moon . The blades were a highly polished silver that glowed . “ This is strange ,” Monkey thought , “ How did I not notice that before !” The girl said , “ I can lead you to her tomorrow ,” and walked away , her hair swishing behind her as she left the room .
Monkey fell into an uneasy sleep . “ Wake up ! Time to go .” the girl called . Monkey ’ s eyelids fluttered open , and he muttered , “ Can I just sleep a bit more ?” “ No . We have to go now ,” she replied . “ Fine , let ’ s go .” Monkey replied groggily .
The street lamps were lit against a dark sky , fading from a midnight blue to a creamy lilac as the sun ’ s rays just started to shine over the horizon . The two walked in silence along the empty sidewalk . An icy wind blew in their faces and the girl ’ s jet black hair flew out behind her . Suddenly , a dense , eerie curtain of mist clouded around the two of them . “ Keep walking , we ’ re close .” the girl said softly . Then the mist cleared , revealing a tall smooth reflective building ending in a sharp spike . “ Where is that demon ?” Monkey said with a vicious growl . “ This is her top secret lab facility . She runs one of biggest chemical corporations in China .” Monkey was shocked . He didn ’ t know how she could recover from the lethal wounds he had inflicted upon her thousands of years ago . He thought she would be off in a cave somewhere in the treacherous , snow covered Himalayas , not the leader of a company . Perhaps the chemicals she made were the secret to regaining her strength . On the entrance to the building , there was a dark blue glass screen that seemed to be emitting a strange misty phosphorescent light . In one swift motion , the girl swept her hair behind her and placed her hand on the screen emitting the bizarre light . “ Access granted ,” a robotic monotone voice spoke out of nowhere , as the hidden doors noiselessly slid open .
The lobby was entirely made out of a glossy , polished , reflective silver metal . They stepped into a metal box that immediately shot upwards taking them to the demon ’ s private office on the top floor . When they stepped out of the lift , the girl ’ s eyes started to glow a ghostly green , illuminating the room , revealing a hidden door . She knocked three times and said , “ my lady , I have brought you that monkey .”
“ Enter ,” came the reply . Monkey was shocked , how did he not realise earlier that this girl worked for the demon ? “ I see now you finally have noticed that your ‘ companion ’ works for me . I sent her to bring you here , because I need a test subject for my newest chemical ,” she sneered . Swearing , Monkey swung his staff at her , but the demon blocked it with a cloud of deep black opaque gas , and reappeared on the other side of the room . “ That gas was a special new blend I invented ,” she said . Then she nodded at the girl in the corner , who threw the two small daggers with snakes on the handles at Monkey . He ducked and they clattered to the floor behind him . In a flash , the carved snakes on the daggers came off the handles and transformed into huge stone colored snakes hissing and slithering around Monkey . Monkey swung his staff at the snakes and knocked them to the side , crushing the girl . As the demon charged at him , he grabbed a tiny clear glass bottle of white gas that was labeled with a row of strange numbers , letters and symbols that had been knocked to the floor and shoved it down the demon ’ s throat . After a matter of seconds , she and the building exploded into thousands of what looked like black and white shreds of paper . Monkey shot out of the glass roof of the building , causing all the tiny shreds of paper to scatter in the sky drifting down slowly . Relieved to finish his task , Monkey blasted up through the clouds into the dark sky towards home .